Sciences and Technology

Reader's Digest Publishing / Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things (Coffee Table Book)

Uncover the intriguing, entertaining and astonishing stories behind hundreds of things all around us.Have you ever wondered who first wore spectacles? Or how soap and toothpaste were invented? From matches to stilettos, from cocoa to aeroplanes, this...

Patrick Moore / Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars (Coffee Table Book)

Star-gazing with binoculars is rewarding and, for many, a lifelong passion! Patrick Moore has painstakingly researched Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars to describe the optimal use of binoculars for astronomical observation. He explains basic...

David E.Y. Sarna / Evernote For Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

Organize your life the simple, painless way with Evernote! Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small using your computer, smartphone, or the web. If you can see it or think of it, Evernote can help you remember it! Now you can type a...

Brian Cox / Wonders of the Universe (Coffee Table Book)

Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before. 13.7 billion years old. 93 billion light years wide. It contains over 100 billion galaxies, each...

Martin J. Siegert / Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change (Coffee Table Book)

Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change provides a detailed account of the temporal and spatial distribution of ice sheets during the last ice age, and how these ice masses interacted with the environment. This is the first book in 20 years...

Stefan Deiters / Astronomy: An Introduction to the Universe (Coffee Table Book)

The world of astronomy is as interesting as it is rich in variety. 'Astronomy' takes you on an impressive journey through the infinite expanse of the universe. This comprehensive encyclopedia of astronomy is divided into two main sections. The first part...

Jacqueline Mitton / The Young Oxford Book of Astronomy (Coffee Table Book)

A new edition of the long-running bestseller, The Young Oxford Book of Astronomy, which has been completely revised and updated for the 21st century. This new edition is updated to incorporate major new information, discoveries and technological...

Brian Cox / Forces of Nature (Coffee Table Book)

A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the new BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions.‘What is motion?’‘Why is every snowflake...

Colin A. Ronan / The Natural History of the Universe (Coffee Table Book)

Provides an accessible account of the origins of the universe, discusses fundamental cosmic laws and theories, including relativity, quantum theory, space, and time, and surveys the state of the universe today   This book is second hand, and while...

Jurek Kirakowski / Human/Computer Interaction (Large Paperback)

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Howard Rheingold / The Virtual Community (Large Paperback)

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J.W. Suggs / Organic Chemistry (Large Paperback)

This newest title in Barron's College Review Series will serve students as a helpful supplement to their main textbook in organic chemistry. It also makes a valuable review book for students who are preparing to take standardized tests that require...

Elizabeth Kolbert / The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions on Earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the next one, which is predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out...

Turlough O'Riordan & Jane Grimson ( Editors) - Irish Stem Lives - PB - BRAND NEW

Across artificial intelligence, climate change, food safety, transport and communication, the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are integral to modern society. Through a selection of forty-six lives from the Dictionary of...

Claire L. Evans / Broad Band : The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet(Large Paperback)

If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls , you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet--written out of history, until now."This is a radically important, timely work," says Miranda July,...

David E. Sanger / The Perfect Weapon - War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age (Large Paperback)

From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cyberwarfare is influencing elections, threatening international security, and bringing us to the brink of global war.Behind the Russian...

Meilir Page-Jones / What Every Programmer Should Know About Object-Oriented Design (Coffee Table Book)

If you're a programmer using C++, Smalltalk, or Eiffel, or if you're about to migrate to object orientation for the first time, you need to know the most important principles of object-oriented design. For In a reliable design, why must a variable's cone...

Ben Shneiderman / Human-Centered AI (Coffee Table Book)

The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright future awaits those who build on their working methods by including HCAI strategies of design...

John L. Casti / Five Golden Rules - Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics--and Why They Matter (Large Paperback)

  Praise for Five Golden Rules"Casti is one of the great science writers of the 1990s. . . . If you'd like to have fun while giving your brain a first-class workout, then check this book out."-Keay Davidson in the San Francisco Examiner."Five...

Kary Mullis / Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (Large Paperback)

Kary Mullis won the Nobel Prize for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction, a chemical procedure that allows scientists to "see" the structures of the molecules of genes. Mullis is no shy, socially inept bench chemist, though; on the...

Ian Ayres / Supercrunchers - How Anything Can Be Predicted (Large Paperback)

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Peter Cattermole / Building Planet Earth: Five Billion Years of Earth History (Coffee Table Book)

Continental plates, moving as fast as human hair grows, collide, mountains buckle, the ocean abyss sucks in the Earth's crust, and volcanos explode. Here is a story that Hollywood wished it could option: the dynamic cycle of geological destruction...

Mark W. Moffett / The Human Swarm (Large Paperback)

A specialist on social insects writes about the origins and implications of our own vast social organisation, and the ways in which our ethnic and national distinctions mirror those of other animals. In this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Mark W...

H.C. Moolenburgh / As Chance Would Have It: A Study in Coincidences (Coffee Table Book)

Coincidences happen to everyone on a regular basis. Usually we shrug them off and forget them.However, when we start to catalogue coincidences we are in for a surprise. They begin to grow more frequent and, moreover, they tend to form a pattern as if...

Richard Dawkins / River Out of Eden (Large Paperback)

How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as "the sort of...

Bruno Latour / Aramis, or The Love of Technology (Large Paperback)

A guided-transportation system intended for Paris, Aramis represented a major advance in personal rapid transit: it combined the efficiency of a subway with the flexibility of an automobile. But in the end, its electronic couplings proved too complex and...

David E. Nye / Consuming Power - A Social History of American Energies(Large Paperback)

Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities. How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of...

Lucy A. Suchman / Human-Machine Reconfigurations (Large Paperback)

This 2007 book considers how agencies were figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects promised by the sciences of the artificial, the author...

Robert A. Weinberg / One Renegade Cell: The Quest For The Origins Of Cancer (Hardback)

Cancer research has reached a major turning point. The quality and quantity of information gathered about this disease in the past twenty years has revolutionized our understanding of its origins and behavior. No one is better qualified to comment on...

James E. Lovelock / A Rough Ride to the Future (Hardback)

In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system.  Lovelock, who was hailed as 'the man who conceived the first...

Andrew McAfee / Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (Hardback)

From the authors of the best-selling The Second Machine Age , a leader’s guide to success in a rapidly changing economy. We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google...

Daniel Miller, Don Slater / The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (Large Paperback)

This pathbreaking book was the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption in the early 2000's. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a sustained account not just of being online, but of the...

Brenda Laurel / Computers As Theatre (Large Paperback)

Presents a new theory of human-computer activity. Building on Aristotle's analysis of the form and structure of drama, Laurel shows how similiar principles can help us understand what people experience when interfacing with computers.   This book is...

Charles Perrow, Charles Perron / Normal Accidents (Large Paperback)

A noted Yale sociologist examines how and why catastrophic accidents occur in high-tech industries—nuclear power, petrochemical, and aerospace—and argues that they are becoming nearly inevitable in our advanced technological society. This...

Philip E. Agre, Douglas Schuler / Reinventing Technology (Large Paperback)

This book addresses how computers affect people's everyday lives. Using actual situations and problems that people have encountered with current software applications, this book offers academics ways to examine how new situations are created through...

Albert Borgmann / Holding On to Reality (Large Paperback)

Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the...

Mark Buchanan / Nexus - Small Worlds and the Theory of Networks (Large Paperback)

As Chaos explained the science of disorder, Nexus reveals the new science of connection and the odd logic of six degrees of separation. "If you ever wanted to know how many links connect you and the Pope, or why when the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank sneezes...

Anna Wiener / Uncanny Valley (Large Paperback)

The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital ageIn her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good...

Thomas Morris /The Matter of the Heart (Large Paperback)

A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations An eye-opening and heroic story of pioneering heart surgeons, structured around eleven operations.For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too...

Juilie Lloyd / A Concise Guide to Weather (Large Paperback)

A conprehensive guide to all aspects of the weather illustrated throughout with superb colour photographs diagrams and maps.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it...

Jeffrey M. Schwartz , Sharon Begley / The Mind & the Brain (Large Paperback)

Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind–and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain...

Paul McFedries / iPad 2 Portable Genius (Large Paperback)

Everything you need to know about the iPad 2! Finally decided to get the hottest device on the planet? If so, don't go far without the iPad's must-have accessory—your own copy of iPad 2 Portable Genius. This hip little guide will show you how to...

Rohit Talwar / A Very Human Future (Large Paperback)

A Very Human Future: Enriching Humanity in a Digitized World   Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington, Helena Calle A VERY HUMAN FUTURE As society enters the fourth industrial revolution, a major question...

Michael E. Mann / The New Climate War (Large Paperback)

A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil-fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and to delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.   This book is second...

James Kinross / Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome (Hardback)

From a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon with over two decades of experience comes Dark Matter - the definitive book on the science of the microbiome and how unlocking its potential can protect our health, our immunity and our...

Richard Dawkins / Science in the Soul (Hardback)

The legendary biologist, provocateur, and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time...

Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green / Vaxxers (Hardback)

A gripping, inspirational account of the race to create a functioning vaccine to combat the spread of Covid-19, Vaxxers is the story of two scientists who have accomplished something truly remarkable at a pace that few people ever thought possible.This...

Michael Sims / Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form (Hardback)

A cultural history of the perceptions, exploitations, and celebrations of the human body discusses such topics as Achilles' heel, dreadlocks, fingerprints, breast-feeding, navel rings, and back pain.   This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Marcia Bartusiak / Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved (Hardback)

The contentious history of the idea of the black hole—the most fascinating and bizarre celestial object in the heavensFor more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the...

Albert Einstein / Ideas and Opinions (Large Paperback)

IDEAS AND OPINIONS contains essays by eminent scientist Albert Einstein on subjects ranging from atomic energy, relativity, and religion to human rights, government, and economics. Previously published articles, speeches, and letters are gathered...

Alex Boese / Electrified Sheep (Large Paperback)

Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still,...

Edward Lucas / Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet (Large Paperback)

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